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NOAA released their monthly climate report for May 2021 today. It showed that May was quite mild across the US, with most of the Southeast cooler than normal but the Florida peninsula warmer than normal. Most of the Southeast was also drier than normal other than Alabama and a band of rain through northern Georgia.…
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Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! These webinars provide the region’s stakeholders and interested parties with timely information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and La Niña. Speakers may also discuss the impacts of these conditions on topics…
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Time magazine had an interesting story on the history of the invention of the thermometer that you might enjoy. It includes information on how the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales were developed and how Galileo invented a precursor of the thermometer called the thermoscope. You can read it here.
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If you are reading the digest version of this blog, you will probably see it on Sunday, June 6. That date is the anniversary of D-Day, the invasion at Normandy Beach. I had the privilege of visiting there in 1980 and camped near the beach as part of a tour of Europe after college. It…
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Even though the official Atlantic hurricane season started on June 1, and we have already had one named storm (Ana), June is usually not a time for a lot of hurricane development. Most storms that do occur form over the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, although as we saw in May, we get the…
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The latest 7-day QPF forecast shows that most of the rain this week is expected to fall in the western half of the region, including Alabama, northern Georgia, and the western, mountainous parts of the Carolinas and Virginia. The best chances for rain throughout the region are over the weekend, with drier conditions gradually occurring…
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On June 1, 1991, the UGA Weather Station in Griffin, GA, made its first weather report. Since that time 30 years ago, the network has grown from 4 to 86 stations across the state. Each station reports temperature, precipitation, wind, humidity, solar radiation, pressure, and soil moisture and temperature at three depths. This information has…